Sony wants to sell 150m PS3’s
Kaz Hirai, chief executive of the Playstation Business has set a massive target of achieving sales of 150m for the Playstation 3. The Playstation, Launched in 1994 reached 102m units and the Playstation 2 has now passed the 140m mark in its 9th year on sale.
Hirai told the Financial Times in an interview that this [...]
Earn money from LittleBigPlanet
What to earn a bit of cash after playing LittleBigPlanet? Well now you can because according to to David Reeves, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, its planned.
Reeves says:
“What we’re trying to do with LittleBigPlanet is almost iTunes meets eBay in the sense that once an individual or a developer has qualified by producing certain [...]
12 announcements at Liepzig?
Sony’s David Reeves has promised that they have a whopping 12 announcements to make at Leipzig, far more than E3.
It looks like Sony were waiting to see what happened at E3 before they unleash their big guns and by the sounds of things they will unleash everything they have next month in Leipzig and then [...]
RE5: No shooting while running
From what we’ve seen in the trailers and videos from E3, you can’t shoot while running in Resident Evil 5. Resident Evil 4 has this same problem and quite a lot of people complained about it. The stop and shoot mechanic is back.
We contacted Capcom regarding this issue and they sent a quick response back:
“At [...]
Massive Action Game (MAG) details
Kotaku has managed to get information on Sony’s Massive Action Game. Here’s some snippets from the article that caught my eye:
“They gave us six options for taglines at the end,” said Orange, who could only remember four: MAG: Shadow War; MAG: Zero; MAG: Global Assault and MAG: Final Hour.
Sounds like these are classed and depending [...]
Limited USB connectivity in new 80GB PS3
The new 80GB Playstation 3 model, announced at E3 is believd to have limited USB connectivity and no backwards compatibility with Playstation 2 games.
The 80GB will come with the same feature set as the pared down model. So limited USB connectivity and no backwards compatibility with PS2 games.
This means that there will be no USB [...]
2K Games: BioShock to have 5 minute install
The Playstation 3 version of BioShock is believed to have a long install prior to playing the game. The BBFC has recently rated the upcoming first person shooter and has listed a file called; 00:05:24:00 BIOSHOCK PS INSTALL VID FINAL.BIK.
DarkZero believes this indicates that the install time is 24 minutes long. I believe this is [...]
Secret Sony game is not MAG
When Darren Waters, BBC Blogger, spoke about a secret game Sony had shown him. Darren wasn’t allowed to speak about this game at all. Darren thought this game would be shown at E3 2008 and you know what, it wasn’t.
If the footage I was shown truly is “in game”, as told to me by the [...]
New Final Fantasy Exclusive for the PS3?
If you listen to the latest 1UP Yours E3 2008 podcast you will notice that it has some rather interesting rumors on an unannounced Final Fantasy game for the Playstation 3. Listen to the podcast, towards the end of the cast, Shane mentions that he has been speaking to some people from Square Enix, who [...]
No BioShock 2 info until BioShock PS3 is released
2K games will not talk about their next BioShock game because they are concentrating on the Playstation 3 version of BioShock.
VideoGamer spoke to Markus Wilding, International PR director, 2K at E3, he got asked for any information on BioShock 2. He replied with:
“There’s not. There will be, obviously, but it will take a while. We’re [...]
FFXIII will be better on PS3
Final Fantasy XIII is being developed on the Playstation 3 first due to it being out in Japan first ONLY on the Playstation 3. Work will begin on the Xbox 360 version AFTER it the Japanese release. If you want to witness FFXIII at its full potential the PS3 version is the way to go.
Sony [...]
Resident Evil 5 Release Date announced
Capcom has announced the release date for Resident Evil 5. The survival horror will be released on Friday the 13th of March 2009. RE5 will be released worldwide. Capcom have said that RE5 will be the hardest and most scariest in the series so far along with being the best looking.
The collector’s edition will be [...]
LittleBigPlanet beta coming this September
LittleBigPlanet will deffinitely have a beta launch this September. The Co-Founder of Media Molecule, Alex Evans has been speaking with WhatIfGaming.com and asked various questions regarding the Beta.
Here’s what went on:
Alex Evans, Co-Founder, Media Molecule: We’re ready for it, and this game just has to get out October. Mark (Healey) is having a boy soon [...]
Wipeout HD delayed because of technical issues
If your wondering where Wipeout HD is… it has been delayed because of technical issues. David Reeves, Boss of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has said:
“There is a specific technical problem with WipEout that we have to solve. I can’t go into details but it is a really, really tricky technical problem that no region has [...]
GT5: Prologue future details and GT: Mobile
Kazunori Yamauchi, Polyphony Digital boss said that he’s currently concentrating on expanding Gran Turismo 5: Prologue and that the Blu-Ray version of Gran Turismo 5 might not hit before 2010.
Polyphony are going to be adding new cars, tracks and features to Prologue. The one we’re most looking forwards to is the new damage system - [...]
